Docker compose - combine angular and laravel - docker

Question

I have a project with the following elements:
frontend - Angular
backend - Laravel
DB - AWS RDS
I want to make to dockerize this project locally and I have several questions:
Is it possible to have only 1 docker NGINX service which will work with frontend and backend without using volumes?
When I will write at enironment of angular the route for the backend, like: http://backend/api/login - should it work?
When I'm trying to open localhost:8050 - I can see the frontend part and the request can't reach the backend container. Please advice
What is the best practise in this case to use at cloud solutions: to use shared drive with 2 folders for frontend and backend and mount them at each container or something else?
Docker-compose
version: '3'
services:
nginx-frontend:
restart: always
build:
dockerfile: dockerfile
context: ./nginx
ports:
- '8050:80'
backend:
build:
dockerfile: dockerfile
context: ./backend
ports:
- '1000:80'
Nginx configuration
server {
listen 80;
# Log files for Debug
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
# Laravel web root directory
root /var/www/html/public;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
gzip_static on;
}
# Nginx Pass requests to PHP-FPM
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass backend:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
}
Nginx-frontend dockerfile
FROM node:14.17.6 as build
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY ./frontend/code/package.json ./frontend/code/package-lock.json ./
RUN apt-get update || : && apt-get install python -y
RUN npm install node-sass -y
RUN npm rebuild node-sass
RUN npm install
COPY ./frontend/code .
RUN npm run build
FROM nginx
COPY ./default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
COPY --from=build /usr/src/app/dist /var/www/html
Backend dockerfile
FROM php:7.4-fpm as php-build
RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get -y install curl
RUN apt-get -y install zip
RUN apt-get -y install libzip-dev
RUN apt-get -y install libpng-dev
RUN docker-php-ext-install zip
COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd && docker-php-ext-install gd
COPY ./code /var/www/html
WORKDIR /var/www/html
RUN composer require "ext-gd:*" --ignore-platform-reqs
RUN composer require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet --with-all-dependencies
RUN composer install
RUN chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/storage/
RUN chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache
FROM nginx
COPY ./default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
COPY --from=php-build /var/www/html /var/www/html
The configuration files are provided.